A Roman road passed through Cawston. In the 1950's this ancient way was clearly visible on Cawston Heath and the neighbouring fields opposite Botany Bay Farm, running westwards towards the Holt-Norwich road. Aerial photographs show the road nearer…

For centuries the woolen industry was important here.
In the middle ages Flemish weavers came here, the gables ends on the houses in the High Street and the Rood Screen in the church remind us of this.
This area was very prosperous until machines…

The Rev Thomas Bowman, the Vicar of Martham on his retirement in 1791 published a book called Caustoniana: or Twelve Discourses addressed to the inhabitants of the parish of Cawston which is not a easy read.
Rev Bowman set up a mission in Cawston…